Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sheila Steele


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  23:44, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

Sheila Steele

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Biography of an activist, not reliably sourced as the subject of sufficient reliable source coverage in media to clear our notability criteria for activists. The primary notability claims here are that she maintained a website, and that she was "involved" in unspecified ways in somebody else's legal complaint -- except that the website was the involvement, and the somebody else was her business partner in the website, so that isn't actually a distinct notability claim from the website. But launching a website isn't an "inherent" notability freebie in and of itself, and the sourcing isn't adequate to make her more notable than the norm for launchers of websites: there are just three footnotes here, of which one is the website metaverifying its own existence, one is her obituary in her local hometown newspaper and one is a (deadlinked but waybackable) media hit which briefly mentions Sheila Steele's name in a timeline of her business partner's legal fight, which is not substantively enough about Sheila Steele to claim that she would pass WP:GNG on that basis alone. And even on a ProQuest search I'm not finding enough improved coverage to turn the tide: I get hits which mention her name in the process of being about the website or unrelated and not-notability-building stuff about her son contracting necrotizing fasciitis, the obituary that's already been cited here, and completely coincidental text matches for different Sheila Steeles, with virtually nothing that's substantively about Sheila Steele as a subject for the purposes of establishing her notability. Bearcat (talk) 21:31, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 21:31, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
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 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Saskatchewan-related deletion discussions. TJMSmith (talk) 21:50, 2 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:35, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom fails WP:GNG.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 22:32, 9 September 2021 (UTC)


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